Description: This presentation is about the general considerations in planning compensation, the role of government in compensation and benefit planning, the relationship between immediate and deferred compensation and estimating the cost of the compensation program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, 1977, Vol.3, No. 1.

Description: This is an article explaining the options employers have under the Medicare Part D, or the Prescription Drug Improvement and Medicare Modernization Act - MMA - that took effect in January 2006. The article discusses 4 options under the MMA with the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Description: This paper identifies and discusses issues affecting retirees’ abilities to successfully navigate medical insurance choices after their employer retiree medical insurance group benefit plan has been terminated and replaced by an outsourced health reimbursement account (HRA) providing accessibility to a stipend through eligible medical insurance claims submissions.

Description: This discussion is about post-retirement health benefits, plan design, retiree eligibility criteria and premiums, controlling costs for pre-Medicare retirees and valuation of liabilities. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 1.

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the following issues: What are the retirement needs of a population?, what are suitable methods of providing social insurance, private pensions,and savings?, what are the political, economic, and sociological implications of various solutions?, and what perspective on this problem does Canadian experience provide.

Description: Chairperson's corner for January 2020 In the Public Interest.

Description: This article is a summary of the World Bank Policy Research Report entitled Averting the Old-Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth. This report concludes that a mix of systems is more appropriate than single pillar systems. It recommends a publicly managed system with the limited goals of reducing poverty among the old, a privately managed mandatory savings system and voluntary savings.

Description: The presenters will provide an update of the Social Security Program’s financial status and discuss recent proposals for modifying the program.

Description: This article describes Singapore's Central Provident Fund and how it involves government, employers and employees in a cooperative partnership for mandatory savings and investment to assist with the primary lifetime goals of home ownership, medical care and retirement provision.